DRAWING CONTOUR and GESTUREhttp://mhsartgallerymac.wikispaces.com/Contour+Drawingshttp://mhsartgallerymac.wikispaces.com/Gesture+Drawing
Drawing as we know is a form of visual communication.
Drawing is making marks.
Drawing is your handwriting, the way you form your letters and the way you compose those letters on a page.
Drawing is decision making which, is also thinking. Whether it is working from observation or scribbling in your note book, whether it is writing a poem or a letter or a paper, you are making decisions with each line, angle and curve you make. Drawing may be the basis of making art and it may be looked at as a basis for thought.
Drawing is a sign of intelligence.
Drawing is a way of controlling something, like composing is arranging or ordering.
Drawing is fundamental to being human as it starts at a very early age.
Drawing is saying, "here I am."

Key Concept: Observation - Drawing
Objective - SW
a) observation of contour concepts
Procedure -
Intro and demo, line, shape, form, value
a) compose and draw a still life in a modified contour.
b) think of shape first
c) then, using a contour line and a different grade of medium start to search and draw the form of the objects.
d) you may stretch or elongate what you observe
e) Instead of black you may use color values
Materials - pencil, charcoal, pastel, eraser and square paper 16 x 16
Artists - Picasso, Matisse, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael
Assessment -
a) TIO
b) line work
c) use of value to produce depth

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The Shell- Contour, Gesture and FormObjective - SWa) observe how line changes shape to formb) observe how gesture focus's totally on form which can produce the shape of an objectProcedure -a) contour of shellsb) gesture drawing of shellsc) gesture drawing using valued) gesture drawing using color 1) in line only 2) in valueMedia, open, maybe ink the pastelArtists, see above adding Diebenkorn, Matisse, Picasso

A Skullhttp://mhsartgallerymac.wikispaces.com/SkullsObjective - SWProduce a drawing based upon the activities aboveProcedurea) introb) thumbsc) begin drawingSize and material, dancers choiceAssessmenta) TIOb) what does drawing say about shape, form?c) how does it say it?d) composition